UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS
Computer Science Department

 

 

CMPSCI 403

Introduction to Robotics: Mechanics, Dynamics, and Control

Fall 2014

 

Rod Grupen

 


Course Announcements

The EdLab

The course is designed so that you can use your personal laptop if possible. The majority of students will find that to be the most convenient and the best overall performance on the simulator we will use. If that doesn't work for you, then the edlab maintains IMACS that can boot MACOS/Windows/Linux) and PCs running Linux. You'll want Mac OSX or Linux to run the X window-based sim. More later, when the accounts are set up.

All students in the class will get an account. Most usernames will be the first character of your first name appended by their lastname (truncated to 8 characters). For example, I would be rgrupen (for Rod Grupen). If this combination is not unique, you will need to get your username from my class roster. If you registered late, then your account may be late as well. Your initial passwords will be your 8 digit assigned Student ID numbers (unless you had an account last semester, then it will be whatever you set it to last semester).

Each student has a home directory on the grad partition. Your login will source the course .login (/courses/cs400/cs403/cs403/.login) and you will also have links to the courses that you take. Type "cd cs403" to get to /courses/cs400/cs403, this is where you should do all your cs403 work . Your directory has group access only (cs403). All the common course related material goes in /courses/cs400/cs403/cs403 directory. If you have trouble getting files from there it probably means that I screwed up the protection again - send me mail and I'll fix it.

If you have technical problems, send mail to system@cs.umass.edu.


grupen "at" cs "dot" umass "dot" edu